- Each league team may maintain 21 active players and 3 non-active players per league week.
- Each league team may sign up to 40 players to its off-season roster.
- Player contracts may range from 1-year to 5-years in length.
- Player compensations and terms are fully negotiated an agreed upon between player and team representation.
- Active player seasonal salaries are as follows, plus housing, insurance, and food additions:
| $22,500 | $16,920 | $16,920 |
| $14,670 | $14,670 | $14,670 |
| $9,900 | $9,900 | $9,900 |
| $9,900 | $7,650 | $7,650 |
| $7,650 | $7,650 | $5,940 |
| $5,940 | $5,940 | $5,940 |
| $4,590 | $4,590 | $4,590 |
Players interested in determining their NGL Free Agent status please read below for more information.
Eligibility Requirements.
[1] Any player who attains the age of 18 during the draft year that has never participated in an NCAA, NAIA, or NJCAA collegiate football program.
[2] Any player who has participated in an NCAA, NAIA, or NJCAA collegiate football program that has exhausted or forfeited his NCAA, NAIA, or NJCAA collegiate eligibility.
[3] Any player less than 18 years of age is not eligible for the Free Agent Draft that unless player notifies the league in writing of his intention to forfeit his remaining NCAA, NAIA, or NJCAA eligibility. This player must receive NGL approval in writing to before the player is entered in Free Agent Draft. To receive approval player must submit entry request at least 30 days or a date determined by the League prior to the draft.
[4] Any drafted player participating in any Canadian Junior League and that subsequently attends a US college and participates in NCAA or NJCAA varsity lacrosse program, will be re-entered into the draft upon exhausting or foregoing his collegiate eligibility. The team originally selecting the player will lose the player’s draft rights.
[5] Any player less than 18 years of age cannot be declared a free agent without being drafted. Any such undrafted player will automatically be re-entered in each subsequent draft until he is selected or attains the age of 21. For purposes of this By-law, a player shall be deemed to be twenty-one years of age should he attain the age of twenty-one before December 31 on the draft year.
[6] “Player” as used herein shall be deemed to mean any football player participating in NCAA, NAIA, or NJCAA US collegiate football or any other player known to the league to be of draft quality.
[7] Any player that has competed professionally in a "play for pay" professional football league.
*All information may be submitted to scouting@nglfootball.com
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